the fighting isn’t over yet

This is the human toll of heavy fighting still going onin parts of Libya’s capital. Here bodies litter the streets of Abu Saleem, a district in the south of Tripoli. The impoverished neighbourhood had always been championed by Muammar Gaddafi’s regime as the most loyal area of the city. Some of the dead are pro-Gaddafi soldiers. Others in civilian clothing are said to be rebel fighters summarily executed by pro-Gaddafi forces who’d earlier captured them. The fighting isn’t over yet but Libyans who fled to Tunisia to escape the conflict are starting to return in large numbers.

SOUND BITE: Al Ameen, Libyan refugee from Sabha, saying (English): "More Libyan citizens in Tunisia decided to go to Libya. Now more to go Libya than to Tunisia." The rebels’ declaration that they control 90 per cent of Tripoli has given the clearest signal yet to the exiles that Gaddafi’s 42-year regime is over.